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macropod · 11-05-2011, 02:24 AM

Hi gapi,

Your document has a mixture of formfields and content controls. If you use formfields, the only way to get them to work is to apply forms protection to the document. The result of that is that anything in the proected Section that isn't a formfield or content control can't be accessed. The way to have formfields in a document that requires free editing in another part is to use Section breaks between the areas using formfields and the areas where editing is allowed, then leave the latter areas unprotected when applying the forms protection.

Unless you need to preserve compatability for users of Word 2003 and earlier, you're probably better off using content controls. With these, activating them doesn't require applying forms protection - all you need to do is exit the Design Mode. Conversely, if you need to preserve compatability for users of Word 2003 and earlier, you can't use content controls.

Note also that formfields and content controls were not designed to work together. Using them in the same document so can lead to inconsistent behaviour.